Improvement in rolls for rolling wagon-hub bands



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v "Rolis for Rolling Wagon-Huh Bands. VNO, 141,641, I Patented August12,1873.

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JOHN GLASS, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO WILSON, GLASS 8tCOMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN ROLLS FOR ROLLING WAGON-HUB BANDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 141,641, dated August12, 1873; application filed May 19, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN GLAss, of Pittsburg, in the county of Alleghenyand State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement inRolls for Rollin g Iron; and I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to theaccompanying drawing, which forms a part of this specification, andwhich shows my improvement by a front elevation.

My invention consists in an improvement in rolls for rolls for rollinghub-bands and other blanks.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I willdescribe the same more fully.

I make a pair of rolls, athe upper one plain and the lower one havingagroove, b of such shape as to form a blank, 0. The blank 0 has a fiatpart, 0 and along the upper side of one edge a convex bead or rib, 0This form is produced on continuous bars of iron, which, beingpreviously heated, are passed through-first through the groove b, andthen through the finishing-groove b.

The use to which I put this peculiar shape of bar or blank is to makebands for wagonhubs.

Heretofore such bands have been made by first encircling the hub with aflat iron band, and then by encircling such band with a piece ofhalf-round iron rod, which is shrunk on the band, thus forming ahub-band of much the same shape as I now produce by rolling.

I also use these bars for encircling tanks of various-descriptions.Besides this, it may be applied to various other uses, which I will notnow mention.

What I claim asmy invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A pair of rolls, a, one of which is plain and the other is provided witha groove, b, of the shape shown, for producing the blank 0, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I, the said JOHN GLAss, have hereunto set my hand.

JOHN GLASS.

Witnesses:

JAS. B. GLASS, T. B. KERR.

